Apple has just announced that the iPhone 5 will be available in South Korea on Friday, December 7, with more than 50 additional countries being added in December, including Brazil, Russia and Taiwan. The iPhone 5 is currently available in 47 countries around the world and including these new countries the iPhone 5 will be available in at least 100 countries by the end of this year. » iPhone 5 Coming To More Than 50 New Countries This Month

Apple just released a press release that confirms that the new iPad will launch in 12 additional countries this Friday, April 20. The press release also confirmed that Apple will launch the new iPad in 9 more international counties on April 27.

In addition to South Korea, the new iPad also will be available beginning on Friday, April 20 in Brunei, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Malaysia, Panama, St Maarten, Uruguay and Venezuela. Beginning on Friday, April 27, the new iPad will be available in Colombia, Estonia, India, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, South Africa and Thailand.

Read the full press release after the break. » The New iPad Will Launch In 12 More Countries This Friday, 9 More On April 27

For nearly two years the game category in Korea had been blocked due to concerns from the Game Ratings Board about the content rating of games. But now it has finally been added to Koreas App Store. The block was an obstacle for many game developers and some even claimed that the government was holding back the game industry in a nation of gamers. Now that the category is open, competition is expected to heat up between mobile game developers, some who had already started preparing their products for the new market on news of the upcoming change.

Com2uS, a leading mobile developer, got its start in mobile gaming over a decade ago, in 1998. Based in Seoul, “we have been excited and anticipating the day when South Korea would be able to have its own iTunes App Store,” says Don Lim, Manager of Com2uS America. With games such as Slice It! and Tower Defense finding fans globally, it will be a welcome change of pace to be able to offer their games in the country in which they are made. To celebrate this they decided to lower their price of all their games to $0,99: » The Korea App Store Finally Gets Game Category

Apple announced today that the  iPhone 4S will be available in Hong Kong, South Korea and 13 additional countries on Friday, November 11. Customers will be able to pre-order iPhone 4S beginning on Friday, November 4. Full list of the countries “Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Malta, Montenegro, New Zealand, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania and South Korea”. » iPhone 4S Arrives In Hong Kong, South Korea & 13 Additional Countries On Friday

Appleinsider reported that South Korea fines Apple 3 million won ($2,830) For violating Koreas location information laws. The Korea Communications Commission announced Wednesday in a statement it has ordered Apple Korea to pay the fine for violating the countrys location information laws, this fine looks really to Apple and probably they will pay this fine just like they did a view weeks ago. Apple Inc. has faced various complaints and criticisms since revelations in the U.S. in April that iPhones were storing the locations of nearby cellphone towers and Wi-Fi hot spots for up to a year. Such data can be used to create a rough map of the device owner’s movements. » South Korea Fines Apple $2,830 For “Illegal” Location Tracking

WSJ reported that Park Chan-wook, one of South Korea’s best directors, gets lots of attention when he introduces a new movie. This is because of a 30-minute short called “Paranmanjang,” which is Korean for “Ups and Downs.” shot with the iPhone 4. “From hunting for a film location, shooting auditions, to doing a documentary on the filming process, everything was shot with the iPhone 4,” Mr. Park said after the screening. “We went through all the same film-making processes except that the camera was small.”. » FilmMaker Park Chan-wook Created Movie With iPhone 4 Only

KT Corporation announced this week that the iPhone has sold more than 1 million units in South Korea, excluding the iPhone 4. It took 9 months to sell and activate 1.02 million iPhones as of Aug. 16 and KT Corporation expect to sell 1.2 million in early October. When the iPhone 3GS was launched in South Korea back in November 2009 it had 65,000 pre-orders to fill, a lot less than the 350,000 pre-orders for the iPhone 4. » More Than 1 Million iPhones Sold In Korea